According to Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google we will be uploading our entire minds to computers by 2045, of course for me this
wouldn't take up too much space probably about 8K

But it's an interesting idea

In just over 30 years, humans will be able to upload their entire minds to computers and become digitally immortal - an event called singularity -
according to a futurist from Google. Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google, also claims that the biological parts of our body will be
replaced with mechanical parts and this could happen as early as 2100. Kurweil made the claims during his conference speech at the Global Futures 2045
International Congress in New York at the weekend.

He goes on to say

'Based on conservative estimates of the amount of computation you need to functionally simulate a human brain, we'll be able to expand the scope
of our intelligence a billion-fold.' He referred to Moore's Law that states the power of computing doubles, on average, every two years quoting the
developments from genetic sequencing and 3D printing. In Kurweil's book, The Singularity Is Near, he plots this development and journey towards
singularity in a graph.

Here is the graph

And then offers us a glimpse of our possible future

'We do need a body, our intelligence is directed towards a body but it doesn't have to be this frail, biological body that is subject to all
kinds of failure modes. 'But I think we'll have a choice of bodies, we'll certainly be routinely changing our parent body through virtual reality
and today you can have a different body in something like Second Life, but it's just a picture on the screen. 'Research has shown that people
actually begin to subjectively identify with their avatar.

So
A: Quite fascinating
B: Quite scary
and
C: Choose your avatar well

It's not the most reliable source hence using quotes, if you want to read it all you can
HERE

This is definitively interresting. Star and flag for sharing this! Great find. I'll still be alive in that time (well, hopefully). I am not sure if
our future will be darker or brighter than our present. These are tools, like any tools they can be used for betterment or for injustice.

No doubt it will be completely voluntary. Because it will work. This incessant need people have to feel accepted means that if their friends are doing
it, they will do it. And if they don't, they're weird, and they won't know what their "friends" are doing. The stigma of being a social outcast will
compel the ignorant to comply to the new social norm.

Thanks, but no thanks. It is the natural cycle for men to die. When my time comes, I prefer to die with dignity rather than continue to exist as a
machine. Can a machine love? Feel joy or sorrow? Without such are we even human? Again, no thanks.

Hopefully I will be long gone before technology catches up with this sort of thing. I don't want to upload my mind into a computer or have a
chosen avatar instead of a human body. I am happy with what I was born with, flaws and all, and I certainly don't want to live forever anywhere
except in the memories of my loved ones.

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